1. |
Slow Down
03:12
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Oh my soul,
Burning a hole in my paper cut world and
Each passing word
Exposes you slow like a beautiful story.
We could slow down, you and I
Watch the world float by.
Breathing you in,
My heart is on fire and you're taking me higher.
The room starts to spin
But all I can see is you staring at me.
We could slow down, you and I
Watch the world float by.
Let me open up your mind as you have mine.
Let me peer inside.
I can't hide, I'm too intoxicated by you.
I try to find a way to keep it cool but
I can't hide, I'm too intoxicated by you.
I try to find a way to keep it cool.
We could slow down, you and I,
Watch the world float by.
Let me open up your mind as you have mine.
Let me peer inside.
Let me open up your mind as you have mine.
Let me peer inside.
Let me peer inside.
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2. |
Hurricane
04:29
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There is a girl who walks through the streets,
Throws her body at the first guy she sees.
Longs to be perfect, seen as a queen,
But she's a prisoner trapped in her dreams.
You get knocked around sometimes with no one to hold
But darling, you're not a mime so let your voice be heard.
Scream out to the wind and let come the rain,
'Cause honey you're not a whisper, you are a hurricane.
There is a woman trying to sleep.
Her eyes are wet and broken from he.
"I'm sorry, I love you, I was all wrong!"
She takes him back and so the cycle goes on.
You get knocked around sometimes with no one to hold
But darling, you're not a mime so let your voice be heard.
Scream out to the wind and let come the rain,
'Cause honey you're not a whisper
If they want to start a war,
Ready the troops for the storm.
Don't you let them write your worth
'Cause somebody's watching you, watching you.
There is a child locked in her room.
Thinks of her sister, mother, too.
Jaded, degraded, takes it all in.
It's all that she knows, and so it begins.
You get knocked around sometimes with no one to hold
But darling, you're not a mime so let your voice be heard.
Scream out to the wind and let come the rain,
'Cause honey you're not a whisper
You get knocked around sometimes with no one to hold
But darling, you're not a mime so let your voice be heard.
Scream out to the wind and let come the rain,
'Cause honey you're not a whisper, oh no,
You're not a whisper, you are a hurricane.
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3. |
Falling Hard
03:51
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Hold my tongue, and close my eyes.
Don't you give in to that easy ride.
Block it out and let it go.
How do you recognize what you don't even know?
Don't you don't you get up off the ground
When you're feeling a rush and you're not coming down?
Can't you feel it pulse in your heart
With the beat of a drum, like a shot in the dark?
Oh, I'm falling hard.
Who I am is all I know,
Colored in black and white, lived in skin and bone.
How I've tried, but failed to show.
The promise of love, it always comes and goes.
Don't you don't you get up off the ground
When you're feeling a rush and you're not coming down?
Can't you feel it pulse in your heart
With the beat of a drum, like a shot in the dark?
Oh, I'm falling,
Oh, I'm falling hard.
All my life I've heard that heart drum beating, that love struck feeling
And it carried me, it carried me.
I was blinded, I could not believe it, but now I feel it
And it carries me, it carries me.
All my life I've heard that heart drum beating, that love struck feeling
And it carried me, it carried me.
I was blinded, I could not believe it, but now I feel it
And it carries me, it carries me.
Don't you don't you get up off the ground
When you're feeling a rush and you're not coming down?
Can't you feel it pulse in your heart
With the beat of a drum, like a shot in the dark?
Don't you don't you get up off the ground
When you're feeling a rush and you're not coming down?
Can't you feel it pulse in your heart
With the beat of a drum, like a shot in the dark?
Oh, I'm falling
Oh, I'm falling,
Don't you, don't you, don't don't don't you get up, get up get up now
Oh, I'm falling hard.
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4. |
Self Centered Life
03:18
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The young man walks down the lonesome road
He knows where he's been but don't know where he goes.
Walks with pride at a quickened pace,
He's the only one running the race.
The old man says, "slow down, my son,
There's more to see, no need to run."
But he don't heed the old man's cry,
And he won't understand until later in life.
When you grow tired
Of living in waste and your killing for spite.
Feeding desire,
You'll never grow into your self centered life.
But no one wanted you to try.
He talks to God when it feels right,
He'll turn to the sun and let in the light.
But when the darkness calls his name,
He'll shut his eyes and enter the cave.
Then back down on your knees
To pray to a God that you've never seen.
And oh, me and him are the same
But I walk with the living while you worship the lame.
And you grow tired
Of living in waste and your killing for spite.
Feeding desire,
You'll never grow into your self centered life.
You'll never grow into your self centered life.
This man that you see, this is not your design.
You're made to be free if you'd just cross the line.
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5. |
Angela
04:08
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Tell me what you think you'll find
In fantasies dancing in your mind.
Did you lose your fire,
Or lose yourself in desire?
Angela, where did you go?
Angela, I know.
And tell me that you lost control
But it's not real, no heart, no soul.
Did you feel the shame,
Or finally lose the game?
Angela, where did you go?
Angela, I know.
Something's wrong and I can see it,
But I can't believe it,
So I'll just close my eyes and dream that
I'm in love with you and you in love with me and it's easy
'Cause you read me, and I read you.
Let me rephrase, I used to.
Now I'm getting calls every day
And they say you're lying to my face, Angie.
I want us to be okay
But I can't stay strong, I can't stay strong forever.
Something's wrong and I can see it,
But I can't believe it,
So I'll just close my eyes and dream that
I'm in love with you and you in love with me and it's easy
'Cause you read me, and I read you.
Let me rephrase, I used to.
Now I'm getting calls every day
And they say you're lying to my face, Angie.
I want us to be okay
But I can't stay strong, I can't stay strong forever.
Angela, where did you go?
Angela, I know.
Where did you go?
I know.
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6. |
Let The Arrows Fly
03:42
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Come my guardian angel to my side.
This wound could be fatal, I might not survive.
Tell me why I feel such pain,
And yet I'm so alive.
What is happening?
Let me live this dream.
Watch my guardian angel as I die.
Leave this world of fables, see me fly.
I have not forsaken sight,
My eyes are open wide.
What is happening?
Let me live this dream.
Let the arrows fly
When you look into my eyes.
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Damien James (My Familiar) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
We are all different, but alike in so many ways. My desire in sharing my music with you is to draw people together, and provide a point of reference with which different experiences might align and soften the elusive barriers we create for ourselves.
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